Heading towards the sanitorium, Helena walks past the guards and sees a man in a lab coat who introduces themselves as Dr. Swanson. Helena assured him that she needs no treatment, and inquired about asking a few of the patients questions about their experiences in the woods outside of town. Being led to a few of the more stable patients, Helena uses a mixture of trying to ease out the information, reading between the lines, and understanding some of the more holy of the bunch.

Questions: 3 

Any info about her sister’s whereabouts 

Info about what or who a Herald of Sephalus is

If they know anything about the mountains to the west

Persuasion: 16

Insight: 5

Religion: 9 

Some of the further gone don’t make much sense, or are just too hard to read. Even though she knows it’s not their fault, Helena still gets frustrated.

After hearing what the properties of the bonnet and locket are, Limine quickly divides the gold as she previously tried to do. One gem for each and 40 gold for each. "I do not need for these." She regards the items. "Now, finally, I'm going to take my rest. My legs are screaming at me for walking for so long. Goodnight!"

After she completes her sleep, Limine will go down and do what she's good at. First, she goes to the armoury and buys a studded leather armour. In the future, she'll remember to wear it before going out of town. After that, she'll spend time at the gambling tables playing card games and talking to people around, listening for rumours.

Primary Facility: Gambling Table. 
10 stress healed?
Bet: 20 gp.
Intimidation: 13
Deception: 13
Replacing insight with my tool proficiency: (I'm assuming it's not tied to any ability score, so only +2 for proficiency. If there are other bonuses...) 7

Secondary Facilities:
1. Weapon Racks, buying that armour.
2. The Common Room, talking to people, listening for rumours...

He spends his days wandering the town; his first few spent in the Wizards Tower, where he files down row after row of books, picking out random titles that seem interesting: he's not looking for anything in particular. (Take the first roll if you only need one, did 3 as that's the defined value for the Primary Activity)

Investigation x3:

6

9

21

(original post had <r3d20+2>, not 3 individual rolls, changed to appropriate roll)

He also makes his way to the barracks and tries to strike up conversation with one of the constables. He is interested in finding out who's who in Trishdale, how common petty crimes are or if things are relatively safe here, he hopes in doing so he will find out if there are any tendrils of the network he was investigating back home out this way. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise him.

Sulskan leaves his home this day with a new resolve. He is smiling broadly and anyone can see that he almost has a bounce in his step. For anyone who has been in Trishdale for an extended period of time, this is a shocker given that Sulskan usually never even leaves his home. Entering the tavern, Sulskan immediately goes to the common room where he settles down and begins talking to people about the wilderness. Hoping to glean some information that might allow him to advance his newfound objective. If he cannot find any information, then he will head to the Sanitorium to seek information from someone who might actually be able to provide it to him.

Primary Facility: None

Secondary Facility:
(Tavern) The Common Room - Listening for rumors

Helena thanks the crazy wizard lady before leaving quickly. She knew it was dangerous to go alone, so she would need to find some people willing to go past the map, or at the very least, find a job in the right direction. She heads back to the tavern, hoping she’d hear a few more rumors that could start her on a path.

Limine (Downtime) 

Limine has a good run at the Gambling Hall. She comes out on top, regaining her gold as well as half her original bet. 

(Limine earns 10 gp, setting her at 63 gp.)

The rush of the card games helps take her mind off the horrible screams of the Spirit. 

(New Stress:0)

She purchases a set of studded leather from the Armory. The dwarf tanner assures Limine that it's of the highest quality in Trishdale. 

(63-45 gp=18 gp.)

She then settles in the common room, looking for rumors. Among the fellow gamblers, she hears some interesting words.

Jack (Downtime) 

The gruff barkeep doesn't seem to be very talkative, but the ale is quite good. There do appear to be a few other adventurer types in the tavern, if Jack's interested in talking to them. 

Later, he enters the half-ruined wizard's tower and peruses the library. The old tomes contain cryptic symbols and pictograms, and thus aren't at all entertaining. Though the head mage Master Baern yells at him to take better care of the books, he doesn't learn anything of substance. 

The Barracks is an imposing, fortress like structure. Jack heads for the Watch Station, a non-descript wooden building outside the fortress, home to the constables of Trishdale. From inside, Jack can hear a loud argument. The guards at the front door glare at him and tell him to wait. 

Upon hearing the conversation, Limine joins in. "Hey, I couldn't help but overhear what you were just talking about. Could you tell me more about this... Rutherford? I'm a traveller, you see, and such a thing might interest me. Surely, there's nothing you can lose from sharing the story."

Slurb will head back to the tavern to sleep and rest. 

Primary facility: Gambling halls

Bet: 13 GP

Insight: 11

Deception: 15

Intimidation: 16

Stress Healed: 20

"Everything alright in there? Sounds like someone's been stepping on the Captains toes or something, reminds me of..."

Jack tells a relevant story that would hint at his law enforcement experience to the guards, hoping that might encourage them to ease up a bit.

(Also, can Jack hear what the voices are arguing about?)

Limine

The two gamblers immediately hush up as Limine approaches them. One of them, a grizzled old man with long beard, takes a swig of ale before replying. 

"Ole' Rutherford's a regular around this joint, but last night, we heard that the Watch was investigating his farmstead. Something came there and tore it all up...including him and his family." 

Sulskan 

Sulskan invites some strange glances as he walks out in the streets. The Tavern is bustling today, and the bartender is working madly to send out mugs of ale to all of the adventurers and townsfolk inside. 

However, as he enters, Sulskan sees the map of Alycron on the wall. The sounds of the people in the Tavern fade away as the voices inside his head begin to whisper. Sulskan finds his gaze riveted on the Lakesire Mountains to the West.

The voices say, "A great power is buried in those peaks...seize it!" 

Slurb

Slurb tries his hand at gambling, but doesn't perform all too great. While he manages to scare some opponents in submission, the others trick him out of his coin. Slurb loses half of his bet, and emerges with only 7 gp. 

(New gold: 46. Stress: 0) 

Jack

The voices are muffled by the walls, but Jack can definitely tell that the argument is quite heated. But from the look on the guards, they seem to be more annoyed than angry. Perhaps this has happened before...

The guards chuckle at Jack's story. 

"At least someone around here isn't totally insane. The Inquisition has indeed been stepping on our toes for quite a while. Speaking of which..."

A scarred priest walks out of the building, giving Jack and the guards a glare. Wooden stakes and holy water dangle from his belt. He leaves without a word. 

The guard continues, "Alright, the Captain's been in a foul mood for the past week. We can let you meet him, but please try to not piss him off." 

Sulskan sighs as the spirits begin to pipe up again. He was hoping that he might be able to go at least one day without them but the fates were against him. As the spirits begin to press into his mind, Sulskan's grin goes from nonchalantly happy, to maniacal. Barely keeping himself from cackling he looks around the tavern for people that might be able to offer him a little more information as well as victims to bring along with him. Speaking to anybody that will listen, Sulskan begins to inquire about any stories about the area around the mountains. He is also keeping an eye out for anyone that looks like an adventurer and he will try and recruit anybody that wishes to join him. He will only stay in the tavern for one afternoon gathering information and 'allies' and will take whomever wishes to join him and promptly leave in the direction of the mountains at dawn the next day.

(See spoiler for what is happening in Sulskan's mind)

(OOC: Anybody in the tavern that is listening for rumors would hear Sulskan's questions and be offered a chance to join him.)

A woman clad in thick black clothes that have more than a few, patches stitches and tears steps in the tavern. Attached to the clothes is a big hood which the woman has up to obscure her face. From inside the hood a thick streak of hair black silky hair flows down and rests on the front of her body. A thick long brown leather jacket is draped over the black clothes she is wearing. Her leather pants seem to be stretched around her legs in strange way, almost like there is a layer of cotton or something between the leather pants and her skin. Her sandal clad feet are covered in black wrappings. The feet seem a bit oddly shaped as well. Perhaps this woman has some kind of deformity in her legs? If she does, then it doesn't seem to slow her down at all. The woman's form tower over most others, standing at an impressive 6 feet 8 inches. Her frame also seems bulky and muscular. In her right hand, she carries an axe. From the axe head and shaft structure it looks like a woodcutting axe but super-sized. It is massive, being the size of a great axe. The size of the axe head is also quite large. The woman walks to the bar, in spite of having such a tall and muscular frame, her footsteps are oddly quiet. She talks to the bartender with a voice that is a bit deep and almost weary sounding but feminine still. She says without looking up, "It's been a while. I'll have the usual."

Vadania had a few busy weeks doing the labors she always does. Then she fell ill and did not leave home for 2 weeks. When she recovered she had another busy session of work. Because of all that, it has been a while since she has been to the bar. With working slowing down again, this is the first time in a good while she got some time come here

"That sounds disturbing. Could you point me in the farm's direction? Maybe I can investigate it myself."

@RazorDawn89

Jack nods and steels himself for a potentially messy confrontation, then puts on his most charming smile and pokes his head into the captains office.

"Evening sir, not to be a bother but I couldn't help but over hear some of that shouting match. I'm new in town, name's Jack, served on the force in Waterdeep, here to help out, if you're in need of another set of hands. That Padre gives me the creeps, what's he giving you such a hard time over? Anything a fresh pair of eyes can help you with?"

Sulskan searches for info on the mountains, but finds that the region is clouded in rumor and superstition. From the locals, he hears a tale about the beginning of Trishdale. When the ships first came over, many prospectors traveled to the mountains to search for precious metals and gems. However, they would never return. The twisted peaks are said to be taller than any other mountains in the world, and a malignant atmosphere dominates the place. 

As it seems, there are quite a few more heavily armed folk in the Tavern. Adventurers, willing to throw away their lives and sanity to hunt for gold and glory. 

(People in the Tavern currently: 

There may be more, so I can update this list anytime. I would recommend using direct replies to PMs to talk to people to get a group together.)